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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The leading trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
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Six Months .75 
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Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested by the 
Business Manager, Rochester, N. Y. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should be 
addressed, Editor, Ilourtown, Pa., and should be mailed to arrive not 
later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered, in the Post Ojjice at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., April, 1916. 
It is futile to try and look into 
THE FUTURE the future, yet we are always 
OF THE trying to do so and the man 
NURSERY BUSINESS that makes the best guess and 
acts upon it is usually the most 
successful. 
J ust at present, owing to the great war, all precedents 
are broken and we have nothing to guide us in our judg¬ 
ments. Some are predicting dire results to business 
conditions in the United States, and have many arguments 
to support their contentions, while others are very op¬ 
timistic and predict extraordinary good times at the con¬ 
clusion of peace. 
The products of the nurseryman are of the two classes, 
necessities, viz. fruits, and luxuries, ornamentals. 
Without considering foreign exports at all, it will take 
quite a little fruit to supply the needs of our own 100,- 
000,000 population and whatever happens this demand 
will have to be supplied, so that fundamentally it is 
quite safe for the nurseryman to keep on growing trees. 
As it is quite possible for the individual to starve in a 
land of plenty, so it is possible for the nurseryman to 
fail unless he equips himself to meet the needs of the 
particular trade or locality which he is catering to. An 
optimistic vision and a fixed purpose is sure to be more 
successful than one of fear and vacillating purpose. 
When we try to look into the future to guide us in 
planning for the growing of ornamentals, one is just as 
likely to be overwhelmed with the tremendous field for 
exploitation. 
A country of countless cities of incalculable wealth 
just coming out of the raw, cities and communities that 
have up until now been mostly pioneer in their work 
and building, filled with people eager for more education 
and refinement, thousands of them having more wealth 
than is needed for necessities which must find its way to 
those catering to the refinements of life. 
It will be the nurseryman’s own fault if the cities do 
not spend more on their parks and boulevards, or if the 
grounds of the homes are not as well kept as the in¬ 
teriors. Absolute faith in the steady and rapid progress 
and development of our country is the only sane outlook, 
and the nurseryman who plans and builds accordingly 
is the one who will most likely be successful. 
There is considerable feeling being 
DELAY IN THE expressed by nurserymen doing a 
FOREIGN MAILS foreign business on account of the 
British censorship of the mails. 
The holding up of the consular invoices, and the re¬ 
striction of cable messages, to say nothing of the delay 
and loss occasioned by delayed shipments of perishable 
nursery stock, is quite sufficient to arouse indignation, 
especially as the United States and Holland are both neu¬ 
tral countries. 
Possibly agitation will help to improve conditions, but 
after all we ought to give to those in Washington who 
are guiding the Ship of State through such critical times 
credit for doing the best they can for the good of the 
greatest number. 
When a good part of the world is at war, even the neu¬ 
tral part is bound to feel the effects, and when we com¬ 
pare our own losses with those of our brother nursery¬ 
men in France, Germany, England and other countries 
now at war, it should make us feel grateful we are not 
in the strife. 
Countries at war are very like men in a passion, not 
very considerate of the rights of neutrals and apt to 
strike in blindness even their own friends. 
It calls for a high grade of patriotism to grin and 
bear a personal loss and at the same time have faith in 
and support the government, or those we think could have 
prevented it, yet in such times as these it is such pat¬ 
riotism that is most needed. 
The National Nurseryman, 
Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
Dear Sir:— 
Kindly fine enclosed check for (one dollar), which re 
new my subscription. (I cannot do without the vai- 
uable magazine). 
Very truly yours, 
Chas. II. Slatek. 
We regret to have to report the death of Mr. Lyman 
Curtis, of Lyman Curtis & Son, Flint, Michigan. Mr. 
Curtis was one of the pioneer nurserymen of Michigan, 
locating there thirty years ago and has taken active part 
in the business which he founded, until very recently. 
He died at his home on March 3rd, at the age of 73, after 
a brief illness. 
i*^Obi*ary. 
* 
LYMAN CURTIS. 
